Stories by Vigier

Clive James Got It Right

The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture

Thar Be Witches, and Us

Vintage filth: a guide to history’s rudest texts

A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence

On Sitting Still in Nature

Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals in Medieval Europe (2004)

For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind

Why Are Cities Filled with Metal Men on Horseback?

Interpreting Rope Channels: The Birth of Greek Monumental Architecture

The Strange Case of Daniel Defoe’s Civet Scheme

Who Cares About Literary Prizes?

Paris’ Problem with the Dead

Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

Tall Tales: Dom Moraes’s Neglected Nonfiction

It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?

Recent press coverage of a cave filled with ‘witch marks’ misses the point

How the Paris Catacombs Solved a Cemetery Crisis

From Here to Infinity

Against Disenchantment

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